Families who covet seats at lower Manhattan's prize elementary schools PS 234and PS 89are legion -- and, if the Times' trend story is any harbinger, their number will climb in the coming...

Earlier this week, the DOE released calendar guidelines for pre-kindergarten admissions. (Funny how these announcements often coincide with vacation season, when parents are more likely to miss the...

<!--StartFragment-->I’ve been asked to provide some basics about what Community Education Councils are, and what they do. New CEC elections for all 32 school districts are coming up soon; a...

This afternoon, the DOE announced that 26 schools will take occupancy on 22 new or improved sites in Sept. 2009, including six entirely new school buildings. Part of the Mayor's $13 billion, 5-year...

The Globe today highlights an MIT/Harvard study of Boston-area charter and 'pilot' schools, in which charter schools steadily outperformed both the pilot schools -- essentially, charter-style...

Parents of prospective kindergarteners, take note: The admissions process will begin in January 2009. For details, read the whole storyhere. Parents new to the process might also want to have a...

It isn’t easy getting information from a 13-year-old, which is one reason I’m at least mildly curious about the interviews my son had as part of the torturous high school application process. “So...

News that the DOE will close three schoolsarrived with a thud; the schools will close in June, and open, reconfigured (or reimagined entirely) in September. The schools on the present chopping...

The DOE's repeating the 'hybrid' middle-school admissions process it piloted last year -- applications and calendars centralized by DOE but individual schools, programs, and districts setting...

Good news for teachers this week: most educators who participated in the experimental bonus program last year have elected to continue with the program this year, and the Department of Education...

In a procedural 180, DOE has revised its plans for centralized kindergarten admissions. In January, their intention was to centralize the process -- much as the pre-K process was centralized this...

Tonight's CEC 3 meeting might include a showdown between parents and administrators from two different schools that share one overcrowded building, wrote Insideschools.org alumna Philissa Cramer on...

At a Manhattan Institutebreakfast yesterday morning, held at the plush, posh Harvard Club, accountability bigwigs from the DOE, Columbia Universityand the Institute debated the effects of F...

Hundreds of parents lined up at PS 58 last night in Brooklyn for information on gifted and talented programs. Info booklets, which were in short supply, describe the application and testing process...

Looks like early-grade testing will commence at 57 city schools. Parents may have issues with tender-years testing, but the schools participating in this DOE pilot all volunteered for the...

It's axiomatic that steady attendance promotes steady learning: The more you show up, the more you learn. But attendance is more than a simple (if vital) predictor of learning, according to a new...

West Side parents famously covet seats at strong local elementary schools; the DOE, well aware of the constant demand, is "floating" two rezoning proposals to address the District 3 crunch,...

Chancellor Klein and UFT president Randi Weingarten announced this morning that more than 6,000 elementary and middle schools educators will receive cash bonuses in reward for their schools’...

It may be less than two miles from principal Josh Klaris' former elementary school, PS 183, to the brand-new DREAM Charter School—opening today with a visit by Chancellor Joel Klein—but the...

Talk of testing dominated the news this week. Whether it was the mayor’s new plan to test kindergarten, first, and second grade students or the results of the SAT exam, the testing debates...

AFT and UFTpresident Randi Weingarten issued a strong denunciation of yesterday's K-2 standardized testing proposal, saying (in part) "There's a right place and a wrong place for testing, and this...

The good news, from the DOE and the State, is that crime in the city's schools is on the wane: Of 25 city schools described as persistently dangerous by the State last year, 15 were removed from...

District 2, which encompasses some of Manhattan's prime development turf, has chronically overcrowded elementary schools. Middle schools, often housed on the top floors of primary schools, add to...

Last week, Insideschools spoke with Anna Commitante (head of DOE G+T), Elizabeth Sciabarra (OSEPO head) and Marty Barr (OSEPO's elementary-schools head) about gifted and talented programs,...

District family advocates, positions newly created by the DOE's Office of Family Engagement and Advocacybefore the 2007-08 school year, will be fewer and farther between in 2008-09, according to a...